Category Archives: Urban scene

Jun 02 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene, Hebden Bridge

UFC (Unidentified For-sale Contraption)

Monday 1st June 2026, 9.35am (day 5,394)

Unidentified contraption, 1/6/26

I have been lookig at this object for a couple of days now and remain mystified as to its exact function, or just why the present owner feels that others may be thinking, “ah yes, that’s just the kind of big blue contraption, with a wheel, that I need in my front room” and thereby be willing to buy it, for an undisclosed price. While he declares his possible frustration at this, a shadowy figure looks on and may or may not have busted the photographer at this point. So goes the latest tableau.

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Jun 01 2026
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Power to the cats

Sunday 31st May 2026, 4.05pm (day 5,393)

Chinese power cats, 31/5/26

The automatic waving cats in the window of the local Asian food store all seemed to be raising the fist in unison this afternoon. At some point in the far future, archaeologists (if such a profession remains by then) may well dig some of these up and ponder on their use in idolatry or some other kind of religious context. But, no, they are just pointless tat, although endearing enough. Maybe the same is true of those similar cat statues dug up from Egypt or wherever. Only the original owners know…

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May 29 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Halifax station

Thursday 28th May 2026, 12.40pm (day 5,390)

Halifax station, 28/5/26

In effect, this was the last leg of my journey home from Scotland — I had to take the hire car back then came home on the train. There’ll be plenty of shots of the local area in the next three weeks, I’m not going anywhere. You find all of this stuff fascinating, I know.

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May 19 2026
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Manchester skyline

Monday 18th May 2026, 9.20am (day 5,380)

Manchester skyline, 18/5/26

As seen from the little-used western footbridge at Victoria station. This picture features many of the same buildings as were seen last Monday — but, you know, a little closer up. And a crane. There’s always a crane.

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May 10 2026
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Chester’s station pubs

Saturday 9th May 2026, 12.10pm (day 5,371)

Chester station pubs, 9/5/26

Chester is a city that has maintained its pre-WW2 architecture better than most, and going black-and-white seems appropriate today. It also hides the anomaly that is the bright blue of the sign for bus stop S3. Yes, I was in the beer garden of the Town Crier at this point, but at least it was after noon. Just.

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May 06 2026
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Incoming liquid nitrogen

Tuesday 5th May 2026, 11.50am (day 5,367)

Nitrogen incoming, 5/5/26

This is definitely liquid nitrogen (or was, until a second or two previously), as it’s going into the Air Liquide tank next to the Engineering building. All sorts of things might be going on in there, with applications for liquid nitrogen ranging from the preservation of human remains through the digging of tunnels to the making of ice cream. As uni doesn’t have a cookery department, though, it’s probably not the last one. I can’t discount the first.

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May 01 2026
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Windows of the Retro Bar, now dead

Friday 1st May 2026, 11.30am (day 5,363)

Retro bar, dead, 1/5/26

Going on the gig posters that still sit, forlornly, behind a metal screen just to the right of this shot, the Retro Bar, on the corner of Sackville and Charles Streets in Manchester, closed in summer 2025. The reason? Because there are no longer any students up at this end of the campus. Whatever is being planned for the acreage of the old UMIST buildings, it has involved gradually emptying them over the last decade or so, and accumulating what must amount to real estate value of tens, perhaps even hundreds, of millions of pounds. I’m sure my employer is well aware of this.

Meanwhile — it was loud and peaceful, so Mark attests. Note the train heading over the viaduct.

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Apr 30 2026
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Further repetition

Wednesday 29th April 2026, 5.50pm (day 5,361)

The houses on Windsor Road in Hebden Bridge always make a good subject and I think this is the sixth time they have appeared on here by now — but it’s been fifteen years, so I ask for that to be taken into consideration when judging my claim to want to avoid repeition on here. Definitely an effective illustration of certain engineering principles though, and of variations on a theme . I make it that there are forty windows visible on this shot in whole or in part, all the same, but all just that little bit different too.

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Apr 25 2026
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Bus stop under blossom

Friday 24th April 2026, 3.15pm (day 5,356)

Bus stop and blossom, 24/4/26

The sun continues to shine and it was far too nice a day to extend the whole ‘working at home’ thing past about 3pm, particularly bearing in mind it is now the weekend (cf. yesterday’s comment). These people may well be on their way home too as they wait for the hourly bus to Haworth and Keighley.

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Apr 17 2026
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Ambient sculpture

Thursday 16th April 2026, 3.35pm (day 5,348)

Red stuff site, 16/4/26

Is it a flower? A back-scratcher for use in some gargantuan shower? The severed limb of a creature with a fetish for chain-link jewellry? (I think that’s it for my free-association work.)

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